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Player of the Year? I’m torn but Scott Sinclair maybe just shades it from Scott Brown.

The latter’s leadership of Brendan Rodgers’ relentless demands has been outstanding but it’s hard to see past a wide player scoring 21 goals in the league and generally elevating bums off seats every time he gets the ball. That, after all, is what you pay your money to see.

It’s almost certain a Celtic player will win the Scottish Football Writers’ award – and rightly so. Celtic have been the best team in the country this season by a mile.

Have they had the vast majority of the best players? Absolutely. Would Rodgers trade any of his for anyone else’s? Doubtful.

Yet weirdly, they may have a problem at the PFA’s Player of the Year awards tonight. Too many of them may have been too good.

Wanyama was nowhere near the awards (Image: Bill Murray/SNS Group)

It happened to Celtic four years ago when they won a League and Scottish Cup double, made the last 16 of the Champions League and produced the single biggest ‘wow’ result in a generation of Scottish football by beating Barcelona.

Yet they didn’t have a single player on the shortlist never mind winning the honours.

Their strength was in their collective that season. They had great players – Victor Wanyama, Joe Ledley, Gary Hooper, Fraser Forster, Kris Commons – but they split the vote in so many ways none racked up enough to stop Michael Higdon winning.

Hayes could be up there under the lights

This year three Celts are in the hunt – Sinclair, Stuart Armstrong and Moussa Dembele – and Brown can’t have been far away from a pick. But if their own players awards are anything to go by – split four ways with Sinclair only just sneaking it – then don’t be surprised to see the fourth PFA nominee Jonny Hayes up there under the lights.

If he is the choice of most Celtic players – you can’t vote for your own team-mates and we know Kieran Tierney and Craig Gordon voted for him – and sucks up the small-minded non-Celtic voters, as well as the alternative picks from those who did scatter their Celtic vote? He has more than a chance.

Young Player? Kieran Tierney. It’s a no brainer. For the writers at least, we have to vote Scottish. But Dembele may well pip him to the PFA’s.

The way Tierney came back from injury like he’d never been away, his love of a tackle and ability on the front foot – so often missing in the modern full-back – and his fish-out-of-water display for Scotland at right-back all prove what opportunity and belief can do for a teenager. Which brings us to Manager.

Jim McIntyre won the writers’ awards... (Image: SNS Group)

... not Mark Warburton (Image: SNS Group)

And while we’re on the subject, let me clear up one thing that people constantly get wrong.

The Football Writers voted for Jim McIntyre as their Manager of the Year last year – not Mark Warburton. He won the one from his fellow pros – the ones who think we don’t know what we’re talking about.

Anyway, I’ve said for 25 years it would take something special for me to vote for a Celtic or a Rangers manager.

There are fundamental questions you ask yourself first. How do you measure success? Is it what you win or what you do with what you have? It’s not about trophies but expectation.

It’s an equation that has resources on one side, relative success on the other and the manager is the variable. The X-factor that determines the outcome.

Historically, with resources so heavily in favour of the Old Firm, most of their managers have only ever met their expectations, in my eyes at least, and rarely exceeded them.

This is, however, one of those years. What Rodgers has done with what he has this year – no matter that it outstrips what everyone else has tenfold – is exceptional.

Rodgers is Gordon’s manager of the year (Image: Tony Nicoletti/Daily Record)

Unbeaten domestically, heading towards a Treble, groups of the Champions League, all with the guts of Ronny Deila’s team and some limited but stunningly effective recruitment.

Plenty of our other managers have beaten par by a distance this season.

Two finals and another second place for Derek McInnes, still with the chance of a trophy.

Top six for Alan Archibald with a team no one outside of Firhill rated as anything other than contenders to go down. Tommy Wright is a serious omission from the shortlist and took Saints into the top four again and Europe on bobbins and buttons.

Jim Duffy has done remarkably to get Morton to a semi and the play-offs considering he was stripped bare last July. Stevie Aitken and Darren Young, keeping Dumbarton and Albion Rovers in their divisions on meagre rations, also fantastic. Jack Ross dragging St Mirren from the brink. Gary Jardine keeping Edinburgh City in the league. All worthy.